The words “Have they no pride?” have been said. The only reason anyone still speaks to him is that he does feed them well.
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The words “Have they no pride?” have been said. The only reason anyone still speaks to him is that he does feed them well.
I did this accidentally by only paying for basic cable. The only shows the kids found entertaining were the Food Network, and suddenly my ten-year-old was “plating the food.” Now he’s a firmware designer who is appalled by the low quality of other people’s potluck contributions.
I was just coming to say this — a feature of out-of-town family coming to NYC on tourist visits is how tired they get walking all day, and that’s even fit healthy young people who could probably run me into the ground if we were actually working out.
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Sadly, Blumencranz v Hochul, 25-CV-1787, is still out there. Defendants’ time to answer was stayed until Duffy was decided, but that’s going to wake up now, if Blumencranz doesn’t give it up as hopeless.
What gets me is that mysterious part of California north of SF which is the same size as all of New York State. I think of NYS as large.
I love this so much! Nothing against people who have private cars in NYC, but there’s no reason to keep subsidizing their car storage by letting them use public space for free.
NEW: Mamdani's City Hall is discussing charging fees for currently free on-street parking — a policy change that would not only create a new revenue stream but also seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve the streetscape. buff.ly/9C0Iq34
My grandfathers were a motorman on the A-train (and that grandmother was a token clerk) and a clerical worker in an insurance company. I’m not gritty myself, but a generation back looks like it.
“Therefore since the world has still,
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure,
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure,” for me.
As a Manhattanite, I can testify that people from Cork walk briskly by my standards.
I want the GSA and DOT to hire up an 18F-like civil-engineering design firm. Cities can call up DOT Corps for the design phase of transit projects instead of AECOM or Turner. Better, leaner, public-interest-focused designs go out to bid, and a GSA Corps staffer can help with oversight!
A while ago, on a narrow NYC sidewalk I saw a couple of middle/high school kids having a heated verbal/shoving match blocking the path. As I came up they seamlessly made room; no acknowledgment, just melted out of my way. I wanted to stop and tell them they were terrific NYers, but they were busy.
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Saw a Calder exhibit at the Whitney, walked up the High Line in a drizzle light enough to be pleasant but that cleared out the usual crowds, and then got Basque food at a place in Chelsea.
And I am now quietly pleased: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...
And the neat way she reifies Victorian sexual mores into a biological reality in the world of the book: being “compromised” is a grossly apparent physical fact.
I like it a lot, but there’s something odd about calling a pretty tight pastiche of Framley Parsonage original. I mean, yes, dragons, cannibalism, hats, but the plot of the first half is not just Trollope, it’s a particular Trollope novel.
I must be communicating badly, because I don’t think being patronizing enters into what I’m talking about at all. “Bless your heart” does, that’s the right tone, but those words are no longer genuinely ambiguous — I’m talking about that kind of sarcasm with real ambiguity.
Sorry, I’m a lifelong New Yorker.
I don’t have a Ted Lasso example offhand, but think of saying something blandly that is innocent if not intended with a double meaning, but bitingly sarcastic if you take it that way. The bland innocence leaving it ambiguous whether sarcasm is intended seems characteristically American.
But the people he’s talking to often think he is at first, right? He’s putting on this blankly innocent face, and then it dawns on them that he’s got more going on than it looks like.
Think Ted Lasso — the whole “is he genuinely that straightforwardly dumb or is it a puton?” Holding on to that sort of routine for a really extended period of time seems American to me.
The American thing I notice that Brits do differently is we will hold deadpan/playing dumb for much much longer than they will. A Brit being sarcastic will pretend to be agreeable about something for about a sentence and then break, while an American might keep it up for ages.
A Truffula-Tuft processing plant called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Thneeds
That game treated upper Manhattan Very Poorly.
While I recognize this is not super important as a matter of good city governance, I am sitting here with a dopey grin on my face. I love the Municipal Building and I love the idea of public access to the roof.
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Have you seen the recent study showing that improvements in travel time outside the CBD, including in NJ, were greater than those inside the CBD? New Jersey is getting reduced traffic.
That tactic is being used in NYS. www.wvdispatch.com/2026/01/neuh...